Road-drag.



FABYEY MORRIS DAVIS, 0E KINMUNDY. ILLlNoIs.

ROAD-DRAW.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11. 1915.

Application filed July 3, 1914. Serial N0. 848,824.

To alt Iwhom it may concern:

lle it known that l, HARVEY Mouais Davis, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kinmundy, in the county of Marion and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Road-Drags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to road drags and in particular to road drags adapted to be folded or collapsed in order to cross bridges.

The. main' object of this invention is to provide an improved road drag adjustable to varying widths, which is very easily handled and, will thoroughly and evenly.

drag the road upon which it is used.

W 1th this object 1n view the invention consists in the improved constructif-@ arrangement and combination of parts of a road drag which will be hereinafter fully de;- scribed and afterward specifically claimed.

I have illustrated an approved embodimentof the invention in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 represents a plan view, and Fig. 2, a sectional view on the plane indicated by the broken line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Referring specifically to the drawing-s, 1

and 2 .indicate oppositely disposed side bars each comprising a metallic drag 'face 3 and main body i, suitably bolted together.

At suitable points in the front and rear portions of each of the sidebars 1 andfg2 are. mounted bearing brackets 7` secured 110 the side bars. by bolts 8 or other suitable Vfastening devices. Pivotally mounted upon ear-l1 of onepair of these brackets 7 is a hollow bar 9 on a pivot pin 10, Like hollow bars l1 are attached by means of a` suitable pivot pin 12, tothe opposite bracket-s v 7, the same being of a smaller diameter thanV the 'hollow bar 9, and adapted to slide in and out of Said bar 9. Each of said bars 9 and 11 have a plurality of registering apertures 13 adapted to receive a locking pin 14" to lock them in adjust-ed position. A bolt bearing member 15 is mounted near the rear end of each of the side barsl and 2 and is adapted to receive the threaded shank 16 of an eye bolt 17, said shank being provided with a suitable nut 18, for longitudinal adjustment of the bolt.

: ,longitudinally adjustable trlarx'sveis Y Eye bolt 19, mounted in the eyes of the bolts 17 are adapted to engage in suitable apertures in a scraper bar 20, and are longitudinally adjusted by means of nuts 21 threaded upon the shanks 22 by which erc rangement the scraper may be adjusted longitudinally of the machine.

hains 23 are connected to each of the side bars by means of suitable eyes 24 and are connected to an engine by means of a Sitable hook chain `23a adjustable in said c ain 23 to give either a center, rightl or left drag. Pivotally mounted upon each @side bar 1 and 2 near their front ends im pivot pins 27 are a pair of backwardly inclined bars 26 connected at their inner ends by a pivot pin 2S, to which is attached *he chain 29 having a hook 30 at its forward end which is connected to the engine or other puller to give expansible adjustment to the side bars and to thereby take the 'labor of said expansible movementl otfof the operator and throw it onto the engine.

Upon the outside surface of each of said i sides l and 2 near their front and rearfeuds are mounted a plurality of wheelsl. These wheels are each mounted in a swiveled been ing bracket 32, being suitably mounted in a aV quadrant'I 37 is mountedupon the pivot pin 35. to receive a suitable locking ,pavvlgl (not shown) uponA the bell-crank leverb.

" bearing Attached to the outside of each which saidwhe-eis 31 are suitably-adjusted to dill'erent depths to thereby raise the-dragf the desired height from the ground.

1n operation the drag is adfusted to the desired expansion and the chains 23 and 23 adjusted to get the desired center or right oi' left drag, when the engine is startedto draw the drag forward in the usual and customary manner.

= When a bridge, or a narrow place in-the Iroad is to be crossed, the pins 14 are-WitlrI lldrawn, the hook 30 released,v andthe-Wheels lowered, when the side bars will fold inward asthedrag is drawn forward bythe'ferigine.

Having now described my inventn 1 claim as new and desu-e to secure by tespatent ise- A. A road drag comprising,` two vsid tions, a. pair of horizontal inwardly projecting bars pivoted-to the front ends of the side bars and inclining backwardly, a pivot pin connecting the inner rear end of said pivoted bars, a chain connecting the front ends of the side bars, a hook chain adjustable on the connecting chain, and a hook chain secured at its rear end to the connecting pivot pin of the pvoted bars and adept- 10 ed to be extended forward, crossing the connecting chain for connection with the engine or other puller. l 'l In testimony whereof I have signedmy name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

Witnesses:

C. R. ALDERsoN, R. P. MCBRYDE. 

